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It has been a little while since Twitter updated their logo by rotating their bird icon just a few degrees counter-clockwise. iOS 6 beta 2 came with an updated icon for the integrated Twitter support, but Twitter’s iOS application lagged behind without an icon change. Today, Twitter 4.3 is live in the App Store with not only an updated icon with the new Twitter logo, but also with some new features. The new application icon with the updated Twitter logo is shown below:

Twitter now allows you to see previews of content from links to partnered Web sites right from your Twitter stream – in other words, screenshot site links will now let you see image previews and YouTube links will let you see video previews, push notifications for specific Tweets or Retweets from people you follow has been added, and ambient notifications so that Twitter-specific notifications don’t bother you as much when you’re in the Twitter application has also been added as a highly requested feature to the Twitter application.

Other minor changes to the application include:

Enhanced autocomplete for searches

Indications when new Discover stories are available for you

Avatars can be tapped to get to people's Twitter profiles

In-app password entry for authentication purposes

Hungarian language support added

Stability improvements and bug fixes included

The update looks good so far and the application is already more responsive than it was before the update, where the application was pretty sluggish. The updates probably still aren’t enough to sway people away from third party clients like Tweetbot, but people that use the stock Twitter application day-by-day should be pretty excited for the update and should find it to make the overall mobile Twitter experience better. The overall appearance of the application is still the same.

You can grab the free update from this link. While you're at it, don't forget to follow ModMyi!

I think it was an awesome and refreshing change. Although the competition is fierce [Twittelator neue and Tweetbot being my personal favorites], Twitter is always updating to stay relevant and more importantly STABLE.

The stock Twitter application handles itself well with what I feel to be a great-looking and simple user interface that most Twitter users can be happy with since all they want to do is read their feed and retweet stuff to their followers. The idea behind twitter is sharing information, which is easily and enjoyably done with the stock application.

Your theory really bothers me inside that someone buying an iPhone has all the money in the world to shed on applications. Often times, people barely get by in this economy, which is hurting millions, and they buy an iPhone because they finally saved up every penny themselves for something they wanted. Putting a fund aside to finally pay for the device they want doesn't give them the ability to grow money on trees and suddenly be able to afford to start buying every paid application in the App Store that people say is better. If this were the case, people would end up paying close to $5000 for their iPhone instead of $199 before they could even start using it. Additionally, many people getting iPhones are getting them for holiday presents from their parents or relatives because they can't afford them. So how are these people supposed to have all the money in the world to start buying applications with supposedly better user interfaces? People in better financial situations could, but it's wrong to judge in this aspect.

Some people are in better financial situations than others – but it doesn't give anyone the right to imply that they're stingy because they "can't be arsed" for downloading a free application over a paid one that does exactly the same thing – offers access to your free Twitter account on your mobile device. The stock application, to me, is absolutely fine as it offers the essential core functionality of simply allowing me to read my timeline and retweeting special events that I think my followers could benefit from. I can also directly message my friends with the application. The gestures, streaming, and other bells and whistles aren't even practical in my eyes because it's not something I would ever need in order to access my timeline.

I think the the regular Twitter app is awesome. And I love the update! The ambient notifications while in the app are fantastic.

I don't at all understand why people hate it so much?

It is literally the same as when I go to twitter on my computer. Just smaller. Same color-scheme, same tabs. It's perfect. I don't want some weird third-party app that is way different from the actual twitter website.

And it has nothing to do with money. I have gladly paid for many apps.

In fact, if tweetbot was free and this app was 3 bucks. I'd buy this app.